Decision of CubeSats deployment date carried aboard KOUNOTORI 6 Last Updated: January 13, 2017 Six of the seven CubeSats launched aboard KOUNOTORI 6 from Tanegashima space center on December 9th will be deployed from Kibo on the night of January 16th (JST. GMT + 9 hours). Planned deployment date: January 16th (Mon), 2017 ① 18:00-18:30 […]
World’s first survival return of all mice reared for a long time in ISS Kibo and the birth of next-generation mice JAXAUniversity of TsukubaOsaka University 【Points】 A small animal rearing mission conducted in the Kibo module successfully completed the simultaneous rearing of mice under artificial (1G) and microgravity (0G) environments, and the return of all […]
Genes other than bone-related genes also show rapid enhancement of expression under microgravity–Results of eight consecutive days of live imaging Medaka fish in Kibo Last Updated: January 13, 2017 Tokyo Institute of TechnologyJapan Aerospace Exploration Agency Joint research by the Tokyo Institute of Technology and JAXA that studied the mechanisms of how bone mass decreases […]
The JAXA Usuda Deep Space Center in Saku, Nagano Prefecture, is home to the largest parabolic antenna in Japan. This large antenna, 64 meters in diameter, was built in 1984, and it was used to communicate with Japan’s first two interplanetary space probes, Sakigake and Suisei, which were launched to study Halley’s Comet in 1985. […]
Researchers successfully established a laser link with the LIDAR instrument on the Japanese asteroid probe spacecraft Hayabusa2 after its Earth swing-by in the winter of 2015. This is the third time in the world that such a link was established with a spacecraft beyond the Earth-Moon distance. The researchers used the laser link to determine […]
Space experiment reveals the mechanisms of how PIN proteins direct one of the plant hormones “auxin” to form a seedling of a cucumber Last Updated: December 28, 2016 Tohoku University Graduate School of Life SciencesJAXA Professor Hideyuki Takahashi’s group at Tohoku University Graduate School of Life Sciences elucidated that the transfer of auxin, one of […]
Protein crystals grown in Kibo are returned to the ground alongside Astronaut Takuya Onishi (completion of the shortest-term protein growth experiment ever conducted) Last Updated: December 28, 2016 Taking a bag for protein sample delivery out of the Soyuz spacecraft (47S) (Credit:JAXA) Soyuz Decent Module landed on Earth carrying Onishi and the samples (Credit:JAXA/NASA/Bill Ingalls) […]
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JAXA President Monthly Regular Press Conference Date and time: From 11:00 – 11:30 a.m. on November 9 (Wed), 2016Venue: JAXA Tokyo Office Presentation Room (B1 floor)MC: Yoshikazu Shoji, JAXA Public Affairs Department Director Astronaut Onishi Returns As you are well informed, on October 30 JAXA’ astronaut Takuya Onishi safely returned to Earth. At this moment […]
Topics List Dec. 20, 2016 UpdatedSuccess of Epsilon-2 Launch with ERG Aboard JAXA successfully launched the second Epsilon Launch Vehicle with Exploration of energization and Radiation in Geospace (ERG) aboard at 8:00 p.m. on December 20, 2016 (JST) from the Uchinoura Space Center. The launch vehicle flew as planned, and at approximately 13 minutes and […]
Message for the ERG Chang, Tzu-FangInstitute of Space and Plasma Sciences, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan ERG mission (Exploration of energization and Radiation in Geospace) is the first formal space research exploration mission in which Taiwan has collaborated with ISAS/JAXA by delivering a particle instrument. For many years, Taiwan has already performed several campaigns to […]
Transfer of the Exposed Pallet (EP) begins Last Updated: December 14, 2016 The Exposed Pallet (EP) with the new ISS battery Orbital Replacement Units (ORUs) onboard was pulled out from the Unpressurized Logistics Carrier (ULC) of KOUNOTORI6 on December 14, at 4:44 p.m. The EP will be transferred and temporarily placed on the designated location […]
First announcement for the third “Space Environment and Kibo Utilization Workshop (SEKUW)” Last Updated: December 14, 2016 First Announcement Space Environment and Kibo Utilization Workshop Vayupak Convention CenterCentara Government Complex Hotel & Convention Centre Chaeng WatthanaBangkok, Thailand9-10 February 2017 We are pleased to inform you that the 3rdSpace Environment and Kibo Utilization Workshop (SEKUW) will […]
ISS/Kibo Monthly News: October – November, 2016 Last Updated: December 8, 2016 Topic of the Month Astronaut Takuya Onishi undergoing rehabilitation after returning to Earth Onishi just after landing (October 30. Credit: JAXA/NASA/Bill Ingalls) Astronaut Takuya Onishi, who landed on Earth on October 30, has returned to Ellington Airport near the NASA Johnson Space Center […]